Pranav Paithankar

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About Pranav Paithankar

With over 17 years of experience in IT and cloud solutions, I bring deep expertise in designing and implementing robust, scalable, and secure architectures that drive business transformation. I am an AWS-Certified Solutions Architect and DevOps Professional with a proven track record of delivering cloud-first strategies for global clients across finance, insurance, logistics, healthcare, education, and entertainment industries. My focus is on enabling innovation, operational efficiency, and cost optimization through modern cloud architectures. I specialize in high-availability infrastructure, seamless migration, infrastructure as code, cloud governance, and multi-layered security. Core Competencies Client Success & Industry Impact Led critical cloud transformation initiatives for enterprise clients across highly regulated sectors. Trusted to manage major incidents, root cause analysis (RCA), and service reliability. Migration Expertise Delivered 800+ successful workload migrations to AWS with near-zero downtime. Skilled in end-to-end migrations: Servers & Applications: AWS Application Migration Service (MGN), ADS, CloudEndure Databases: SCT, DMS, RDS Data: AWS DataSync, Transfer Family, Snowball, S3 Transfer Acceleration Infrastructure & Automation Deep experience in architecting and managing infrastructure using EC2, VPC, Lambda, RDS, ECS, EventBridge, SES, and Batch. Proficient in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation. Automated CI/CD pipelines using CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, Jenkins. Security Architecture Developed and implemented security frameworks aligned with ISO, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, and SOX. Extensive use of AWS security services: Security Hub, GuardDuty, Macie, IAM, Cognito, KMS, Shield, WAF, Secrets Manager, CloudHSM. Cost Optimization & Governance Achieved 30%+ cost savings by leveraging AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets, Savings Plans, and Compute Optimizer. Built multi-account governance models using AWS Organizations, Control Tower, Config, and Systems Manager. Certifications AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional & Associate AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional AWS Certified Security – Specialty